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by kofejnik 7y ago
Watch some Jacob Collier, he often changes tunings mid-song (i.e. on Hideaway, he starts with A432 and ends at A440 (?), and in In The Bleak Midwinter, he modulates mid-song to G-half-sharp, or A453 iirc). This is just mind blowing when you
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by kofejnik 7y ago
>If you think that discourse is valuable Who exactly is going to decide? Rules and values committee? > What are the consequences if people believe in that idea So people are stupid, and the all ideas should be first vetted by non-stup
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by kofejnik 7y ago
> we will have the tech to fingerprint anyone just by their writing style we're far beyond that; I have successfully fingerprinted users by buttons they press in Office 365
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by kofejnik 7y ago
... until you become a medium-value target for someone (maybe in a business-related dispute), and now your email is easily hackable
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by kofejnik 7y ago
there's no evidence of that whatsoever somewhere on youtube, there's a clip of two grandmasters fighting in front of a large audience, in the 1950s I think? It's bw and terrible quality, but it's quite obvious that eith
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by kofejnik 7y ago
There's more variation of height within male and female groups than between groups, but still you can confidently say that on average males are taller; so "far more variation within the group" doesn't say much > can&#
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by kofejnik 7y ago
What’s wrong with long oily hair? Are you judging engineers by their appearance? And somehow you find _them_ sexist?
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by kofejnik 7y ago
you're totally free to start a few companies and pay 'fair' salary to the execs you hire or, if an executive at some publicly-traded company is paid way over his/her value, it would mean that the company is inefficient;
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by kofejnik 7y ago
I was totally floored seeing deadmau5' masterclass, he composes in Ableton on Windows, using mouse and keyboard shortcuts, no controllers!
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by kofejnik 7y ago
I somewhat dislike the TDD cargo-cult myself; but this is such a shallow opinion piece, how is it on top of HN? 25 minutes, 16 points - all that it takes?
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by kofejnik 7y ago
right, traverse a maze by always turning left
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by kofejnik 7y ago
by your logic, any ad can be reframed as "a lame suggestion". They're still ads, though, and still very unwelcome. And last time I checked, there wasn't a switch to easily turn them off, completely and permanently.
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by kofejnik 7y ago
Ads in start menu? Apps installed without my consent? No, thank you
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by kofejnik 7y ago
you can change your battery, of course. Also, it is sometimes possible to buy refurbished 2015 models directly from Apple, which is what I intend to do if September models aren't a serious improvement over current offerings. Because, e
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by kofejnik 7y ago
can't see why this makes him an asshole. Bitter and angry, maybe
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Cities Are Helping People Buy Amazon Surveillance Cameras Using Taxpayer Money(vice.com)
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by kofejnik 7y ago
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSwa... tl;dr - 2x RAM was true in the early 90s
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by kofejnik 7y ago
Regulated taxis absolutely _suck_ in every EU country I visited (which is most of them). Even when they aren't fleecing an unsuspecting tourist, they are way overpriced and service isn't great. I cheer for the day they all go out
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by kofejnik 7y ago
a refurb 2015 macbook pro is the logical choice
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by kofejnik 7y ago
and that is a serious mistake, I believe
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by kofejnik 7y ago
if Russia is so irrelevant, what's with all this hysteria about Trump colluding with Russians?
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by kofejnik 7y ago
>> lack of hardware choice (or different "opinions" like a matte screen or smaller phones) is probably Apple's biggest flaw it's a strength, not a flaw choice fatigue is real, just go dell.com and try to pick a la
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by kofejnik 7y ago
you forgot one more thing: they don't distribute their crap as a regular self-contained .app, they give you a .pkg which asks for elevated privileges during installation (this is why I don't have it installed)
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by kofejnik 7y ago
I was subjected to a polygraph test once, and I successfully misled the operator several times, by slightly biting my tongue (so I was asked, "you show heightened emotional response to X and Y, something you're trying to hide?&quo
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by kofejnik 7y ago
"reputable content" as defined by GOOG's own ideological bias
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by kofejnik 7y ago
yes, that's simplifying a lot, definitely. First, the whole landscape would've been different. And then, Hitler invaded Poland because he could, and because he had additional reassurance from Molotov-Ribbentrop. Also, you are conv
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by kofejnik 7y ago
without communist revolution and Stalin's pact with Hitler, I don't think there would've been a WWII
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by kofejnik 7y ago
some people (myself included) strongly prefer interacting with live humans, over emailing and hoping that stuff gets fixed. E.g. in McDonalds, rather than ordering in a kiosk, I go to a cashier, it's actually easier and faster this wa
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by kofejnik 7y ago
fact: marxism is a steaming pile of horseshit. Source: lived in the USSR
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by kofejnik 7y ago
yes, it actually is

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